William Shakespeare Quotes
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If we are mark'd to die, we are enow To do our country loss; and if to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more.
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The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me.
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
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When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.
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Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.
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What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended.
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My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.
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No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart; Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.
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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
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Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
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And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
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With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.
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Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
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A light wife doth make a heavy husband.
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
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When faced with a sea of troubles, take action, and in so doing end it.
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.
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But I will be, A bridegroom in my death, and run into't As to a lover's bed.
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Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
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There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.